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WGAR News: Interviews with Dianne Stokes, Kylie Sambo and Barbara Shaw

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 1:47pm

Newsletter date: 3 December 2011

Contents:
* Interview with Dianne Stokes and Kylie Sambo re Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* MAPW: Risks of transporting radioactive waste to Muckaty
* Interview with Barbara Shaw, vocal opponent of the NT intervention
* Michael Anderson: Aboriginal tribal leader off to Europe to challenge Australian sovereignty
* Aboriginal Tent Embassy to mark 40th anniversary
* Michael Mansell: Why The Preamble Is A Hollow Gesture
* ANTaR: Govt commits to act to reduce Aboriginal imprisonment
* Michele Harris, 'concerned Australians': Opinion - NTER Evaluation 2011

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Interview with Dianne Stokes and Kylie Sambo re Muckaty nuclear waste dump

MAPW - Risks of transporting radioactive waste to Muckaty

Interview with Barbara Shaw - vocal opponent of the NT intervention

Michael Anderson - Aboriginal tribal leader off to Europe to challenge Australian sovereignty

Aboriginal Tent Embassy to mark 40th anniversary

Michael Mansell - Why The Preamble Is A Hollow Gesture

ANTaR - Govt commits to act to reduce Aboriginal imprisonment

Michele Harris - concerned Australians - Opinion - NTER Evaluation 2011

Michael Brull - Destroying Indigenous communities and cultures

What's Working - Deadly Health Stories

Submissions about Stronger Futures due 12 Jan 2012

Submissions on the role of languages and culture due 17 Feb 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 3 December 2011

Upcoming Melbourne Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 3 events from 5 December 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 30/11/2011 - 1:08pm

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Mon 5 December 2011: Belgrave, Melbourne, Vic
Our Generation Film Screening
Cameo Cinemas
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/vic/event/27340/
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about-2/
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Fri 20 January 2012: RMIT entrance, Melbourne, Vic
Indigenous freedom-fighters commemoration:
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner
"To commemorate the execution of the indigenous
freedom fighters Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner"

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Melbourne

Victoria

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NT intervention

Northern Territory Intervention

Our Generation Film Screenings in Melbourne

WGAR News: "Ramingining Elders say no to the second Intervention!"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 30/11/2011 - 10:19am

Newsletter date: 30 November 2011

Contents:
* "Ramingining Elders say no to the second Intervention!"
* MAPW Fact Sheet: Transport of radioactive waste to Muckaty
* Socialist Alliance: 'Intervention mark II' a new whitewash
* What's Working: Mapuru Enterprises
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 19 events from 30 November 2011

* "RAMINGINING ELDERS SAY NO TO THE SECOND INTERVENTION!":

- Statement

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Northern Territory Intervention

MAPW Fact Sheet - Transport of radioactive waste to Muckaty

Socialist Alliance - Intervention mark II - a new whitewash

What's Working - Mapuru Enterprises

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 19 events from 30 November 2011

Defend and Extend Public Housing BBQ Picnic and Networking Meeting

Submitted by jeremytrewindixon on Fri, 25/11/2011 - 10:05am

Date and Time:

Sun, 04/12/2011 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Coburg Lake, City of Moreland Melbourne. Just south of the old Pentridge Jail, on Merri Creek. Corner of Gaffney & Champ Streets, 5 minutes walk east down Gaffney St from Sydney Rd. A great location for an open air event, there is shelter if it rains and it is near water if it is hot which is more likely. Kids playground and BBQs, public toilets, natural beauty in the city. Obviously we may have to share the BBQ. Once one enters the park one walks straight down towards the river and lake. It should be OK for people with wheelchairs and other mobility problems, there is a path alongside the lake/creek. We will have a banner or the like down near the footbridge. A good chance for the people who know each other face to face to meet those who we so far only know through a computer terminal; and do some serious plotting!

Contact Name:

Jeremy Dixon

Contact Phone:

0451 047 188

Contact Email:

jeremytrewindixon@yahoo.com.au

Website:

www.publichousingwatch.com

Defend and Externd Public Housing was formed by public housing tenants to combat the privatisation of public housing by stealth which is taking place in Victoria as elsewhere in Australia; largely under the innocent-sounding label of "community housing". We are open to all, not just public housing tenants. Public housing is a social good which holds down prices and rents in the private sector as well; although obviously public tenants have a special interest and mobilizing them is a priority.

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WGAR News: "Federal Government betrays NT communities with second Intervention" STICS

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 20/11/2011 - 12:02pm

Newsletter date: 20 November 2011

Contents:
* Federal Govt plans to extend its intervention in the NT
* Interviews with Barb Shaw and Randa Kattan on Income Management
* The Bush to Bankstown: The fight against Govt Income Management
* Two Sydney events highlighting struggles for Aboriginal rights in the NT
* International Human Rights Day - Alice Springs, NT
* Ninety people gathered in Darwin on Nov 18 to launch Walk With Us
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

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Northern Territory Intervention

Federal Govt plans to extend its intervention in the NT

Interviews with Barb Shaw and Randa Kattan on Income Management

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 23 events from 20 November 2011

The Bush to Bankstown - The fight against Govt Income Management

Two Sydney events highlighting struggles for Aboriginal rights in the NT

International Human Rights Day - Alice Springs NT

Ninety people gathered in Darwin on Nov 18 to launch Walk With Us

Logging East Gippsland old growth forests destroys wildlife refugia in a warming climate

Submitted by takver on Thu, 17/11/2011 - 11:41am

Environmental activists have been out in old growth Forests in East Gippsland this week attempting to stop more rape of our natural environment and protecting important refugia habitats for endangered species. Logging operations on Survey Rd on the Errinundra Plateau were halted by a tree-sit attached to five logging machines and suspended 40 metres up in the tree canopy.

"In the face of recent Baillieu government moves to weaken the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, conservationists have again taken their message to logging sites where important wildlife habitat continues to be logged for woodchips", said Ms Amelia Young, spokesperson for the conservationists of the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) (Facebook).

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Solidarity with the Baiada workers: Coles flash mob

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/11/2011 - 10:20pm

A flash mob descends on Coles in solidarity with workers on strike from the Baiada Chicken factory in Laverton, Melbourne. Baiada supplies major supermarkets including Coles under the brands Steggles and Lilydale Chicken. And supply fast food chains such as KFC.

Baiada workers have been killed and injured due to unsafe working conditions, the mostly migrant workforce are bullied into accepting terrible conditions, and many workers are paid as low as $10 an hour cash in hand, or employed as contractors.

Workers and community supporters are maintaining a picket 24-hours a day blocking entry to scab labour and trucks with live chickens.
Related Coverage: Support the striking poultry workers at Baiada -- Baiada workers not chickening out of a fight by Benjamin Solah -- Flash mob on Youtube

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Tree sit stops logging in old growth forest on the Errinundra Plateau, East Gippsland.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 14/11/2011 - 1:09pm

GECO Media Release 14/11/11

Tree-sit stops old-growth logging

Conservationists highlighting the ongoing destruction of old-growth forests in East Gippsland have stopped logging on the Errinundra Plateau by attaching a tree-sit to five logging machines.

The tree-sit is suspended 40 metres high in the tree canopy and is held up by interwoven rope that is tied to the equipment.

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Environment going backwards under Ted Baillieu

Submitted by takver on Sun, 13/11/2011 - 11:22pm

Victorian Environment groups gathered to protest the Environment and climate actions of the Baillieu Victorian State Government on Sunday November 13, 2011 on the steps of State Parliament. To highlight the direction the Government is taking Victoria's environment, the protesters marched backwards to the Treasury Gardens.

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WGAR News: 'cA' paper: Cuts to welfare payments for school non-attendance - requested or imposed?

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 12/11/2011 - 1:08pm

Newsletter date: 12 November 2011

Contents:
* 'cA': Cuts to Welfare Payments for School Non-Attendance
* Thanks from leaders to supporters of the Yolngu Nations Assembly
* Paddy Gibson and Barb Shaw: Alternative to the NT Intervention
* Emma Murphy: New NT education policy still sidelines Indigenous language
* Amnesty: Stronger futures in the NT must be a product of the people
* Greens Rachel Siewert: Smarter investments the key for the NT
* More on the National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF)
* What’s Working: So No to Government Intervention

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